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Coronel Institute, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam

MODERNET

Establishing a European netw ork for m onitoring trends in occupational diseases and new and em erging occupational risks

New Risks: Occupational infectious diseases

New risks: also for the next generation

Burden of occupational diseases

• Every year 300.000 people die of

work-related diseases in the EU

• The estimated incidence of
• ccupational diseases in Europe is 30

million cases per year

• The estimated economic losses

amount to more than € 800 billion every year (4% of the gross domestic product of the Region)

EU Strategy on occupational health and safety 2 0 0 7 -2 0 1 2

• Work-related illness and accidents

should be cut by a quarter across the EU:

– Improving and simplifying existing legislation and enhancing its implementation – Defining and implementing national strategies – Mainstreaming of health and safety at work in

• ther national and European policy areas

(education, public health, research) and finding new synergies – Better identifying and assessing potential new risks through m ore research, exchange of know ledge and practical application of results

Goals of MODERNET ( FP7 -project proposal)

• Establishing a network for monitoring

trends in occupational diseases and new and emerging occupational risks

• Improving methods of data

processing, validity testing and assessment of economic impact

• Rapid exchange of information and

appropriate preventive actions

Participants

• Academic Medical Center, Netherlands Center
• f Occupational Diseases (NL)

(D.Spreeuwers)

• University of Manchester, Centre for

Occupational and Environmental Health (UK) (R.Agius)

• Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

(FI N) (H.Taskinen)

• Department of Occupational Health, National

Institute of Public Health (CZ) (P .Urban)

• Occupational Medicine Clinic, University of

Milan (I T) (C.Colosio)

• Supported by W HO

W orkpackages

• 1. Development and maintenance of the

network

• 2. Connecting monitoring and reporting

systems

• 3. Data processing
• 4. Testing the validity of trends and signals
• f new risks, and their interpretation
• 5. Assessment of economic impact
• 6. Exchange of information
• 7. Appropriate actions

Steering group Project group Expert group including stakeholders Centre 1 Centre 2 Centre 3 Centre n Communication area Signals/ Information Network